Olivia Moultrie scored her first goal for the U.S. women’s national team on Tuesday against the Dominican Republic during the team’s first CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage match.
It was the 18-year-old’s third cap for the United States, playing as a forward in a 3-2-4-1 formation underneath Sophia Smith. In the eighth minute, Moultrie finished the ball one time from a great touch by Smith. The touch dinked past the defender and right into Moultrie’s path directly in front of the goal. Overall, the U.S. dominated the opening ten minutes, pressing high against the Dominican Republic on a waterlogged field at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
18-year-old Olivia Moultrie opens the scoring for the #USWNT with her first international goal 🙌
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— The Athletic Soccer (@TheAthleticSCCR) February 21, 2024
Despite being the youngest women’s soccer player to turn professional at age 13 in 2019, Moultrie is a long way from nabbing a USWNT record for youngest goalscorer. Remarkably, that honor still belongs to one of the legends of the game, Kristine Lilly. Lilly had just turned 16, with not even a full month having passed since her birthday, when she scored a goal against China in 1987. (Related fun…
